Rethinking Representations of Asian Women

List of illustrations AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Pluralizing Images, the Sphere of Everyday Life, and the Agency of Relatedness: For Representative Interventions for Women in Asia; Noriko Ijichi, Atsufumi Kato, and Ryoko Sakurada1. The Mother ' 's Identity of Korean Diaspora Women in Japan; Jung-Eun Hong2. On Encouraging Mothers of Multiple Children through the Order of the Mother Glorious in Mongolia; Turmunh Odontuya3. Imperial Japan and the Diving Women (Chamsu) of Jeju Island, South Korea; Noriko Ijichi4. Everyday Practices of Immigrant Vietnamese Women in Japan in Obtaining Ingredients for the Food of Their Homeland; Erina Seto-Suh5. Divorced Newcomer Korean Women in Japan: The Decision to Remain in Japan and Lifestyle Adjustments; Dukin Lim6. Crafting Religious Selves in Transnational Space: Japanese Women Who Converted to Islam upon Marrying a Pakistani Migrant; Masako Kudo7. Working in the City and Rearing Children in the Hometown: Women-centered Relationships of a Patriarchal Chinese Family in Peninsular Malaysia; Ryoko Sakurada8. A Concerned Mother of the Souls in the House: The Agency of Vietnamese Elderly Women who Live Alone in their Home Villages; Atsufumi Kato9. A Regime where the Woman ' 's Voice is Heard: Guanluoyin as a Form of Abortion Ritual in Contemporary Taiwan; Grace Cheng-Ying Lin10. The Role of Women ' 's Self-Help Networks in Anti-Caste Discrimination Movements in Nepal; Kanako NakagawaNotes on ContributorsIndex

Jung-Eun Hong, Osaka University, JapanTurmunh Odontuya, Centre for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, JapanErina Seto-Suh, Kyoto University, JapanDukin Lim, University of Tokyo, JapanMasako Kudo, Kyoto Women's University, JapanGrace Cheng-Ying Lin, John Abbott College, CanadaKanako Nakagawa, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan